WRN vs. MTAL, NEXA, LAC, TMC, EU, LZM, LAAC, LAR, CRML, and DC
Should you be buying Western Copper & Gold stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Western Copper & Gold include Metals Acquisition (MTAL), Nexa Resources (NEXA), Lithium Americas (LAC), TMC the metals (TMC), enCore Energy (EU), Lifezone Metals (LZM), Lithium Americas (Argentina) (LAAC), Lithium Argentina (LAR), Critical Metals (CRML), and Dakota Gold (DC). These companies are all part of the "non-metallic and industrial metal mining" industry.
Western Copper & Gold vs.
Western Copper & Gold (NYSE:WRN) and Metals Acquisition (NYSE:MTAL) are both small-cap basic materials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, profitability, dividends and risk.
Western Copper & Gold presently has a consensus price target of $4.25, suggesting a potential upside of 297.20%. Metals Acquisition has a consensus price target of $14.75, suggesting a potential upside of 37.02%. Given Western Copper & Gold's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Western Copper & Gold is more favorable than Metals Acquisition.
22.0% of Western Copper & Gold shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.5% of Metals Acquisition shares are owned by institutional investors. 4.6% of Western Copper & Gold shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Metals Acquisition shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Metals Acquisition received 2 more outperform votes than Western Copper & Gold when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 75.00% of users gave Metals Acquisition an outperform vote while only 58.33% of users gave Western Copper & Gold an outperform vote.
Western Copper & Gold has a beta of 1.81, suggesting that its stock price is 81% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Metals Acquisition has a beta of 0.15, suggesting that its stock price is 85% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Western Copper & Gold has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Metals Acquisition.
Metals Acquisition's return on equity of 0.00% beat Western Copper & Gold's return on equity.
In the previous week, Western Copper & Gold had 13 more articles in the media than Metals Acquisition. MarketBeat recorded 13 mentions for Western Copper & Gold and 0 mentions for Metals Acquisition. Western Copper & Gold's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat Metals Acquisition's score of 0.00 indicating that Western Copper & Gold is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Western Copper & Gold beats Metals Acquisition on 9 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:WRN) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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